Posts By Curtis Swartzentruber (@skills0)
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Oct 12Windows 8: Using SQLite and C# Data Layer with an HTML/JavaScript appOne of my first questions when starting to develop on Windows 8 was what do I use for local storage. It seemed like a lot of the samples were geared to consuming public web apis/services and that is certainly a valid use case. But a lot of “traditional” desktop apps (particularly LOB applications) are going [...]
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Sep 12Windows 8: Sharing html content with images in local storageWe are working on a Windows 8 app where we simply need to email the results of a survey. Sounds easy enough, right? Particularly with Windows 8′s shiny new Share framework. Fast forward a month of struggle and frustration and here’s what I’ve learned. Cliff Notes: if you are a Windows 8 developer, prepare to [...]
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May 12Windows 8 Metro Javascript apps–Initial ThoughtsFor the past couple of weeks I’ve had a chance to take a closer look at the process of building Metro-style apps for Windows 8. Since I have a long background in web development, I was curious about using the HTML/Javascript approach. I was curious how much of my existing skillset I would be able [...]
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May 11Debugging partial classes for WCF proxy classesThis is one of those posts that I’m partially putting up here so I don’t forget this later. I’m currently working on a data integration project that involves the basic process of sending and retrieving data from a third party web service. When retrieving data, the Service Reference creates proxy classes for the objects being [...]
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Jan 11Playing around with Orchard CMSHad a little time today, so I decided to check out some of the new stuff that’s been coming out in the Microsoft web space lately. Was going to play around with the Razor view engine in MVC3 a little (and probably still will), but got sidetracked checking out Orchard. Orchard is a free, open [...]
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Jan 11What’s up with HTML 5?One of the consequences of being on a project for a few years is that you tend to get really good at the specific technologies needed to write the best applications for that project. And you tend to miss out on some other stuff, unless you want to spend all your weekends keeping up. There’s [...]
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Jan 11Migrating Clarity Blogs to WordPressAfter quite a long time using Community Server, we decided to look for a different option. There were a number of reasons. We have been running on Community Server 2007 for a couple of years now and the latest products from Telligent weren’t really going in the direction we wanted. We were also looking for [...]
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May 09Web Platform Installer ReviewEarlier this year Microsoft released the Web Platform installer, currently available in version 1 or as a version 2 beta. I’ve been playing around with it for a few days and I think it is generally a step in the right direction. If you are doing web development on the Microsoft platform, it’s well worth [...]
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Oct 08Commerce Server 2007 MSDTC errors and NetBiosSo i’m working on an e-Commerce project with Commerce Server 2007 and we had one developer machine that was having issues with the MSDTC transactions used by the pipelines. We took a look at all the obvious stuff like the DTC settings on each machine, turning off the local firewall (at least for development) and [...]
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Apr 08Digging into ASP.NET MVC – Part 2I got a bit sidetracked from the MVC stuff as I didn’t have as much time between projects as expected, but had a chance today to play around with it a bit more at home. I don’t really have any earth shattering things to share, but I did run into a couple of beginner gotchas [...]
